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Saturday, June 09, 2012

PAUL FUSSELL

Paul Fussell

Paul Fussell (1924 - 2012) was an American historian and professor.

He came to hate the lies of the government and the military.

Paul Fussell was involved in World War II.

At the start of the war, he was a 19-year-old boy, aching to prove his manhood.

"His unit ran into an artillery barrage in which pieces of shell ploughed into his leg and back.

"As he lay there, bellowing with anger, he felt fine red spray falling on him; his buddy Edward Hudson had been so riddled with bullets that the contents of his torso were forced out of the holes in the back of his field jacket."

The government and the generals described war as good, and necessary, "but for those on the ground (a quarter of whom admitted to vomiting or soiling themselves, out of panic, before they went into battle) the war had no meaning, beyond the fact that the quicker they got it over the sooner they could go home."

Two modern biographers of Baden-Powell consider him to have been a repressed homosexual, Michael Rosenthal of Columbia University and Tim Jeal. (Baden-Powell and boy scouts)

Jeal mentions an episode in 1919.

While on a visit to Charterhouse, his old public school, he stayed with an old friend, A. H. Tod, a bachelor teacher and housemaster who had taken large numbers of nude photographs of his pupils as part of a photographic record of public school life.

In a subsequent communication to Tod regarding starting up a Scout troop at the school, Baden-Powell mentions his impending return visit and adds: "Possibly I might get a further look at those wonderful photographs of yours."

7 comments:

Hello AangGreat posts as usual. I see you have a loyal group of followers, altho I am surprised there are not more. What I am coming to conclude, is the fact that homosexuality is so common, that we should not be surprised, and we should not legislate re adults.

What adults do is between them.What is truly repulsive, repugnant and abhorrent as a woman and mother of sons, is the predatory, exploitative and cruel acts against all children: boys and girls.

These are truly criminal acts, and yet these vile creatures sit in judgement on the people, making lawful political decisionsThe greatest crimes against humanity are coming at us from the top downand we the people have to stand against all this, and their lies.Zoompad my interpretation of George and the Dragon extends to the slaying of our own vices/sins within, you know the ones: pride, avarice, sloth etc.?Cheers to all amidst these dark subjects and thanks to Aang

We have written quite a lot about child abuse and the bisexuality of the elite. Which may be why we get rude comments suggesting that we are crypto-Jews, anti-semitic, promoting a gay agenda, homophobic, blind to the goodness of Hitler, showing too many pictures of nubile young ladies etc.